Crépy en Valois (Defrance collection) (Eocene of France)

Where: France (49.2° N, 2.9° E: paleocoordinates 47.1° N, 1.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• Possibly Bartonian (Auversian) if same age or locality as Betz

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: carbonate

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the MNHN

• Repository: Defrance collection (some of which is now at Musée de Normandie, Caen, or at MNHN Paris)

Primary reference: J. B. Lamarck. 1804. Suite des mémoires sur les fossiles des environs de Paris. Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 3:343-352 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 184144: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.02.2017

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Cerithium turritellatum n. sp.1 Lamarck 1804 cerith snail
Cerithium pleurotomoides Lamarck 1804 cerith snail
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Bulimus cyclostomus n. sp.2 Lamarck 1804 snail